Carlos Ghosn Quotes
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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You keep learning all the time.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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Everyone needs to start somewhere.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
